Loopy Loop-The-Loops

The past three weeks has been pretty crazy. Some things can only be dealt with one at a time with some breathing space (preferrably a month).

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Here are the twist and turns in my emotional roller coaster:

1. An ex-boyfriend of mine beat the living daylights out of me. This went on for the six years that we were together. However, we have officially split up (meaning: we moved to different houses) since the start of the year and my life has been pretty peaceful since then. We were talking about our five-year old tyke with whom I permitted him visiting rights and how he needs to contribute to that child's well-being. He also bragged about his religion (he's now a Christian affiliated with Victory) and how we've been living in sin when we were together.

So we got into a heated argument which resulted to a lot of concussions, blurred vision in my left eye, contusions all over the left side of my face, my legs and my arms, and a split inner cheek.

I went to a medicolegal.

2. I graduated my class which is headed for a technical support account. I miss them terribly. All of them ride the short bus.

3. There is a guy who's courting me. Well, I don't think that he is anymore since his psychotic ex-girlfriend has been giving me hell (thanks to text messaging) and then he suddenly dropped off the face of the earth. It's not that I'm into him or something. I just hope that he's still alive.

4. An opportunity to train in New York (Buffalo, not Manhattan) has presented itself and everyone in training went into a frenzy. Then again, no one in our kind of training is ready to leave the camaraderie yet. However, no loyalty awards were given out as a consolation. But then we found out that (go to 4)

5. Our senior manager is leaving us to go slumming in operations. He is on his way to another department. Now, this is one person who must be cannonized. He takes nice to an altogether different level and when you say the name of our department, he is the first person to come to mind. I cannot even begin to express how much we love him. I feel so numb and wrung-out now. Everyone cried when he told us he's leaving. He at least had the decency to tell all of us in person.

A few trainers and I went driving all over the metropolis in a car with conked-out a/c that smells like freon and car exhaust just because the office gave us cabin fever when the news hit us like a ton of bricks.

Our department also got an all-expense paid trip to Baguio from Friday to Monday so that we can say goodbye to him properly. Ugh. We are singing I Will Survive.

6. I lost a friend. Owing to the being caught up in this frenzy (and the fact that my brain cells have been jarred and pounded out of existence), I was not able to apologize or salvage our unravelling friendship. Psh.

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Now what is the common denominator of all my troubles? People with Y chromosomes. It's the time of the month to steer clear of men. My lucky stars are at war with Mars.